Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Three Beans Café ("coffee, vanilla, mung") is in the hugely unpromising surroundings of the Broadway Shopping Centre. Despite the location, it's actually a pretty decent organic café serving excellent coffee, iced tea, attractive cakes, and lovely fresh sandwiches (mine was a generously stuffed brown roll with smoked salmon and red onion). Illuminated by a quite spectacular light fitting, the centrepiece is a large communal wooden table, where you can sit enjoying a coffee or some homemade soup and watching seasonal santas frantically climbing wooden poles while you brace yourself to return to the mall.